If you’re planning a short detox diet, you’ll want to make sure you eat the foods that increase your chances of success and avoid the foods that will hurt your efforts. Here’s a list of the best and worst foods to eat while dieting.

The best detox diet foods

• Fruit: You can eat any fruit, whether fresh, frozen, dried, or canned in plain fruit juice. This includes apples, bananas, pears, oranges, grapefruit, satsumas, sultanas, raisins, pineapple, mango, kiwi, strawberries, raspberries, black currants, nectarines, peaches, and melons.
• Fruit Juice: Make homemade fruit juices or smoothies from fresh fruit, or drink prepared juices. Make sure prepared juices are labeled as plain or unsweetened.
• Vegetables: Eat any vegetable including fresh, frozen, or canned in water (no salt added). This includes carrots, onions, turnips, turnips, sprouts, cabbage, bell peppers, mushrooms, corn, bell peppers, leeks, broccoli, cauliflower, salad, tomatoes, and cucumbers.
• Beans and lentils: Eat any beans, including those that have been dried or canned in water. This includes red kidney, kidney bean, cannellini, butter, black eye, pinto, red lentils, green lentils, and brown lentils.
• Potatoes: eat all kinds
• Rice noodles and brown rice
• Rye crackers and rice cakes
• Fresh Fish: Eat any fresh fish, including cod, mackerel, salmon, lobster, crab, trout, haddock, tuna, prawns, sole, mullet, halibut, lemon sole, monkfish and swordfish. You can eat salmon and tuna canned in water.
• Unsalted Nuts: Eat any, including Brazil, peanuts, almonds, cashews, hazelnuts, macadamia nuts, walnuts, pine nuts, pistachios, and walnuts.
• Unsalted seeds: Eat any, including sunflower and pumpkin.
• Plain popcorn – eat without sugar or salt
• live natural yogurt
• Extra virgin olive oil and balsamic vinegar
• Garlic, ginger and fresh herbs
• black pepper
• Sweetie
• Water: Drink at least eight ounces of tap water or mineral water daily.
• Herbal or fruit teas

Foods to Avoid During Your Detox

• Red meat, chicken, turkey and meat products such as sausages, hamburgers and pâté.
• Milk, cheese, eggs, cream
• butter and margarine
• Any food that contains wheat, including bread, croissants, cereals, pastries, tarts, pies, quiches, or battered and breaded foods.
• salted nuts
• Chocolate, candies, jam and sugar
• Processed foods, prepared foods and sauces
• Alcohol
• Coffee and tea
• Store-bought sauces, pickles, salad dressings, and mayonnaise
• Salt
• Carbonated drinks, both sugary and diet

Now that you know the do’s and don’ts of detox diet foods, you’re halfway to success!